The voting for DDD6 is now open - as I always say vote early vote often. I hope my submission of a proposal for a session on Scrum is of interest. I know I have had feedback on my previous sessions that people want to know more on this area. Also saw today on Colin Angus Mackey’s blog that DDD7 DDD Scotland will be in May 2008 at Glasgow Caledonian University....
Last night went to an excellent free meeting at the Yorkshire Extreme programming Club given by Clarke Ching entitled : Programmers may be from Mars, Customers may be from Venus … but why does everyone think that Project Managers are from Uranus? From the title I was unsure of the content, other than it would be about project management. It turned out to be a workshop on using formal conflict resolution techniques to dig into problems in projects to find solutions and to expose underlying patterns - very interesting....
I have just got back from SQLBits after giving my session on Unit testing in SQL. As I said at the start of my session, at developer events I often feel a bit of an outsider when I say I am talking on testing as opposed to development; today it was doubly so when surround by so many DBAs. I have to say some of the sessions I attended seemed to be from a completely different world to my day to day work....
Whilst sorting our eScrum installation I kept getting a variety of Javascript errors when selecting a project using the dialog on the top right of the main web form. I also was unable to create new product via the web site. It turned out to be two problems: Templates Some the projects I had registered to be used via the Escrum web site were not using the eScrum template, they were using the Conchango Scrum one....
As I posted before I have been updating our TFS server to 2008 Beta2, today it was the WSS from 2.0 to 3.0. Well I followed the process on Sudhir Hasbe’s blog and it just worked, so now we have WSS3.0 running the the TFS application tier. The final step will be to move the SharePoint sites to our main MOSS 2007 farm, but that is for another day. As part of today’s upgrade I was working on process templates....